Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Engineering internship for MEng and BEng students working on mixed-signal IC projects in analog and digital design, verification, emulation, IC layout, EMC, applications, validation, or product test engineering. Interns develop designs, perform laboratory and silicon validation, create test plans and boards, write automation scripts, analyze performance, and troubleshoot hardware. Positions are based in Edinburgh or Newbury and require full-time availability, commuting or relocation, and U.S. export-control eligibility.

Manage multidisciplinary engineering design across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant performance, stakeholder coordination, and integration across mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical disciplines. Ensure solutions are compliant, sustainable, buildable, maintainable, and aligned with client, operational, regulatory, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Manage electrical engineering design across multidisciplinary infrastructure projects from concept through delivery. Lead technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interfaces, consultant and contractor performance, and stakeholder coordination. Ensure designs are compliant, innovative, sustainable, maintainable, and buildable while integrating civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical disciplines. Support contract management, risk and scope changes, regulatory requirements, and health, safety, and environmental considerations throughout the asset lifecycle.

Lead and develop software engineering teams ranging from graduate to senior level. Coach employees, support career growth, promote engineering best practices, and foster continuous improvement and innovation. Collaborate with product and organizational stakeholders to balance short- and long-term goals, deliver software on schedule, and improve engineering processes through Agile practices, AI tools, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycles.

Lead and develop a team of 6–10 Quality Engineers while improving quality, release, and engineering practices across product teams. The role involves coaching, performance management, capacity planning, risk-based quality decisions, CI/CD and automation improvements, release readiness, incident learning, and responsible adoption of AI in quality workflows. The manager will lead cross-team improvements, coordinate with Principal Quality Engineers, and deputize for the Head of Quality Engineering.

Administer and support large-scale cloud and on-premises monitoring deployments across multiple providers. Maintain performance, availability, capacity, permissions, upgrades, and audit compliance. Integrate applications and infrastructure with enterprise monitoring instrumentation, document operational processes, collaborate with technical teams, and mentor colleagues on observability practices. The role requires expertise in monitoring platforms, application performance monitoring, synthetics, end-user experience, infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, cloud services, scripting, SQL, and multiple operating systems.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Leads the M&S Cloud Platform engineering team building AI engineering platforms, reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and developer self-service capabilities. Responsibilities include technical strategy, platform ownership, architecture, DevOps, reliability, vendor management, recruitment, talent development, and line management of senior engineers. The role contributes code while driving engineering excellence, operational reliability, strategic alignment, and improved developer experience across more than 200 engineers and 30 applications.

Leads the AI Engineering platform team, setting technical direction and building reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and agentic workflows. Owns platform reliability, developer experience, production operations, vendor partnerships, technical strategy, and OKRs. Manages Staff and Senior Engineers while driving recruitment, retention, engineering excellence, and cross-functional alignment. The role requires hands-on software development, AI coding expertise, cloud and system architecture knowledge, DevOps practices, testing, reliability engineering, and strong people leadership.

Manages the Web Platform engineering team, overseeing technical vision, reusable pipelines, tooling, frameworks, developer experience, reliability, and production operations. Leads senior engineers, recruitment, retention, technical strategy, vendor partnerships, OKRs, and engineering excellence. The role combines hands-on software engineering with people leadership, platform ownership, product thinking, and cross-functional influence across customer- and colleague-facing applications.

Leads the team building the SRE function and owns its technical vision, platform capabilities, reusable tooling, pipelines, frameworks, and developer experience. Manages senior engineering staff, drives recruitment and retention, aligns technical strategy, oversees reliability and operational excellence, partners with vendors, and contributes hands-on code. The role requires strong SRE, cloud, software architecture, DevOps, testing, reliability engineering, and people leadership experience.

Leads software engineering teams and technical projects for a mission-critical emergency dispatch platform. Provides architecture direction, conducts code reviews, guides C# backend, database, and web development, and oversees testing and delivery. Manages Scrum and Agile execution, mentors teams on AI development tools, fosters collaboration and continuous learning, and partners with senior leaders and external stakeholders. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to UK and Poland offices and requires security clearance eligibility.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Design and evaluate challenging mobile software engineering tasks for AI systems. Responsibilities include creating debugging, feature development, refactoring, state management, lifecycle, and performance tasks; building reproducible environments; writing deterministic automated tests and verifiers; developing reference solutions; and documenting rigorous evaluation criteria.

Lead the Pensions & Savings AI and Automation Engineering practice, defining technical strategy, delivery standards, operating models, roadmaps, and talent development. Build reusable AI agent and automation platforms, establish secure lifecycle controls, and guide solutions from experimentation into production. Partner with product, business, technology, data, risk, and enterprise AI teams to deliver measurable value. Provide hands-on technical leadership, oversee suppliers and investment, and build an inclusive, high-performing engineering organization.

AECOM is seeking ground engineering, geotechnical, engineering geology, tunnel, and structural engineering professionals at all levels across the UK. Responsibilities include delivering ground engineering and tunnelling projects, applying relevant technical standards and design codes, supporting projects from concept through operation, leading teams appropriately to experience, and contributing to innovative infrastructure solutions. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, project experience, willingness to travel throughout the UK, and a clean driving licence.

Leads engineering teams delivering bespoke laboratory equipment projects, servicing, calibration, repairs, and maintenance. Manages resources, schedules, budgets, customer relationships, proposals, technical documentation, facilities coordination, HSE compliance, and financial reporting. The role also supports equipment design, assembly, troubleshooting, technical sales, and laboratory operations.

Design and validate electrical engineering tasks for AI training and evaluation. Create schematics, PCB layouts, circuit designs, calculations, simulations, technical documentation, and reproducible reference solutions. Review AI-generated engineering work for accuracy, identify design faults and inconsistencies, and establish objective evaluation criteria. The role requires practical expertise in circuit theory, electronics development, PCB design, simulation tools, and electrical systems, along with strong technical communication skills.

Design and validate realistic mechanical engineering tasks for AI training and evaluation. Create and review CAD models, assemblies, technical drawings, specifications, calculations, and simulation outputs. Assess mechanical designs, materials, tolerances, manufacturing constraints, and engineering feasibility. Develop traceable reference solutions, identify errors and failure risks, review AI-generated technical work, and establish objective evaluation criteria.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within FanDuel’s Customer Product Engineering domain. Owns technical strategy, customer outcomes, availability, scalability, operational excellence, third-party integrations, regulatory requirements, responsible gaming systems, production support, hiring, budgets, and long-term architecture. Requires leadership of managers and senior engineers, experience with high-volume transactional systems, regulated environments, cloud infrastructure, modern back-end development, AI-assisted development, and executive communication.